Pensions and Social Security

Part of deferred divisions – in the House of Commons at 7:54 pm on 13 February 2013.

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Photo of Stephen Timms Stephen Timms Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) 7:54, 13 February 2013

It would be particularly interesting to see a revised child poverty forecast from the Institute of Fiscal Studies, which I expect to appear before the Budget. We now know—as I say, these figures had to be dragged out of reluctant Ministers—that this order plus the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill will increase the number of children growing up below the poverty line by 200,000, including 100,000 in working families.